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a table and set of 4 chairs in workroom, for visitors - floor of dirt with one section (where Pak Pujo works) covered by a large grass mat
in addition to wayang puppets were some large hid sheets into which a sayang-style figure was cut - these are usually mounted in a wooden frame and used as wall decorations -(elsewhere I have seen such cutouts as room dividers or the backs of very expensive carved furniture)
- puppets unpainted were about Rp 1500-5000 while the painted puppets went up to Rp10,000 (unpainted puppets are sometimes mounted on velvet or other fancy material and also used as wall decorations in Jakarta homes and offices) -
- at the time we arrived Pak Pujo had about 20 puppets painted and unpainted, in stock - all were purchased by the American travelling with us (a Los Angeles-based buyer who has known Ibu K. for several years + got her started on

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a larger scale - recently ordered 100,000 batik coinpurses -difficult to estimate Pak Pujo's usual stock, but probably wouldn't even get much over 20 pieces
single puppet of the smaller type takes 5-7 days for one worker to complete the decorative cut-out work - a large piece such as a gunungan will take a single worker as much as 1 1/2 months to complete
-no estimate of the Round per day each worker puts in, but at the time of our visit only two of the 5 workers there; one of these two boys told me, however, that he works from 8:00AM to 5:00PM
can guesstimate that 20 puppets represents about 1 month's work for the whole household
Pak Pujo says that he "doesn't know" Pak Sjahsoni (head of Dept. of Industry office, Bantul) but that some of the pengradjin who don't know their business as well as he does might know him